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Title: Don't Fear the Reaper
Chapter: Inter'acte - The Baby
Fandoms: Bokurano/Sandman
Summary: Death comes to collect everyone upon their moment of dying. The pilots of Zearth are no exception. [Spoilers for Bokurano]
Disclaimer: Nope.
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For one moment, she saw a bright light and she knew she was going to die. She knew everything was over before it began, her life was done and she didn’t even get to live it.
But then. Then the light began to fade and a mature voice whispered Not yet, little one, and a younger voice but a voice she just knew said You get to live, my baby gets to live, and if she could she would have gurgled out Mama but nothing came.
And then nothing for a long time, but she didn’t know it was a long time.
Then the mature voice returned and drew her close and said Your mother loved you very much but it’s time to go back, and she didn’t know if she really wanted to because wasn’t her mama somewhere out there? Wasn’t the younger voice still watching over her? But the mature one didn’t give her a choice, she just took her away from the wherever-she-was and everything went light again and then.
And then.
And then…
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“It’s a girl!”
Ichiko, drenched in sweat but smiling nevertheless, looks at the crying bundle in the nurse’s arms. Her husband stands by, smiling as well (though his hand was probably numb from how tight she’d been squeezing it).
“Let’s give her a bath and then we’ll bring her back for you to hold.”
Among the hustle and bustle, everyone moving, there is nothing for Ichiko but the sight of the beautiful baby before her. Even as she rests in her hospital bed, there is nothing…
…except her dear late sister, standing in the corner with a young woman in gothic attire. Chizu smiles at Ichiko and later the woman would blame the drugs the doctors are giving her to help her sleep.
Though she will remember the moment-that-couldn’t-have-been when she and her husband are discussing names and she will suddenly ask, “What about Chizuru?” and her husband will smile approvingly and that will be that.
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Author’s Notes: I was hesitant to write this chapter, but I realized Chizu’s baby was a pilot too - and to be honest, it just seemed extremely Sandman of me after Nada.
Chapter: Inter'acte - The Baby
Fandoms: Bokurano/Sandman
Summary: Death comes to collect everyone upon their moment of dying. The pilots of Zearth are no exception. [Spoilers for Bokurano]
Disclaimer: Nope.
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For one moment, she saw a bright light and she knew she was going to die. She knew everything was over before it began, her life was done and she didn’t even get to live it.
But then. Then the light began to fade and a mature voice whispered Not yet, little one, and a younger voice but a voice she just knew said You get to live, my baby gets to live, and if she could she would have gurgled out Mama but nothing came.
And then nothing for a long time, but she didn’t know it was a long time.
Then the mature voice returned and drew her close and said Your mother loved you very much but it’s time to go back, and she didn’t know if she really wanted to because wasn’t her mama somewhere out there? Wasn’t the younger voice still watching over her? But the mature one didn’t give her a choice, she just took her away from the wherever-she-was and everything went light again and then.
And then.
And then…
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“It’s a girl!”
Ichiko, drenched in sweat but smiling nevertheless, looks at the crying bundle in the nurse’s arms. Her husband stands by, smiling as well (though his hand was probably numb from how tight she’d been squeezing it).
“Let’s give her a bath and then we’ll bring her back for you to hold.”
Among the hustle and bustle, everyone moving, there is nothing for Ichiko but the sight of the beautiful baby before her. Even as she rests in her hospital bed, there is nothing…
…except her dear late sister, standing in the corner with a young woman in gothic attire. Chizu smiles at Ichiko and later the woman would blame the drugs the doctors are giving her to help her sleep.
Though she will remember the moment-that-couldn’t-have-been when she and her husband are discussing names and she will suddenly ask, “What about Chizuru?” and her husband will smile approvingly and that will be that.
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Author’s Notes: I was hesitant to write this chapter, but I realized Chizu’s baby was a pilot too - and to be honest, it just seemed extremely Sandman of me after Nada.